"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have."

-- Andy Andrews

#Adversity Quotes #Self Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting...”
“You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.”
“Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.”

Source : Rocket to the Morgue Interlude (1942) See Arthur Conan Doyle 10
“I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

Source : Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
“Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.”
“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”
“I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

Source : "Tragic, fascinating, brilliant - life of 'wild child' Zelda Fitzgerald revisited" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2016.

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